Heavy rain battered parts of central Japan on Thursday, causing landslides and flooding with a series of reports of cars becoming submerged and calls for rescue. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued ...

A Tokyo-based real estate developer will offer new hires joining in April next year a monthly salary of 1 million yen in a bid to recruit talent with expertise in entrepreneurship and artificial ...

Japan has resumed a program for university students to engage in short-term studies in Russia for the first time in seven years, the Foreign Ministry said. A total of 15 Japanese university students ...

Police in Mobara Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a couple on suspicion of abusing their three-month-old daughter. Police said Hiroto Hanawa, 25, a company employee, and his wife, Mai, 25, who is ...

A 21-year-old Myanmar national has been arrested for allegedly abandoning the body of a baby at her home in Higashimatsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture. The woman, a vocational school student, is ...

Japan spent 15.4 trillion yen ($96 billion) to boost the yen between late July and late August, the finance ministry said Friday, the largest monthly intervention on record. The Bank of Japan ...

Four watches worth around 200 million yen were stolen in a matter of seconds Tuesday from a store inside a shopping complex popular among anime and manga fans, police said. Two men wearing black masks ...

South Korea, Japan and the United States ‌will conduct joint military drills from September 9 to 11 to test ‌readiness against North Korea's ⁠missile and nuclear weapons ⁠threats, South ⁠Korea said on ...

Rescuers in Nepal and China were struggling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing ...

The leaders of Britain and France pledged to provide Ukraine with stronger military support — including access to classified technology and faster deliveries of air defence missiles — at a meeting of ...

Massive flash floods in a border area of Nepal and China on Wednesday killed at least 160 people and left hundreds of tourists, workers and others missing after sweeping through communities and ...

Two Chilean men were arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing luxury watches from a shop in Tokyo, an investigative source said. The men, in their 20s and 30s, were arrested after four watches worth ...